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The National Commission of Audit Recommendations Sounds Like They’re Straight Out of The Onion

[Image from ABC News 24]

[Image from ABC News 24]

[Via Sbs News] “WHAT THE NATIONAL COMMISSION OF AUDIT RECOMMENDED: *Raise age pension age to 70 by 2053. * Include the family home in a new means test from 2027. * Raise superannuation preservation age to 62 by 2027. * Slow the roll-out of the national disability insurance scheme. * $15 co-payment to visit the doctor and access Medicare services. * Require wealthy Australians to have private health insurance. * Increase co-payments for taxpayer-funded medicines. * Open pharmacy sector to competition, such as supermarkets. * Allow the states to impose a personal income tax surcharge, offset by reduction in federal rates. If you have a PAN card and need to correct something on it here is a correction form for changes. * Scrap Family Tax Befit Part B and new means test for Part A with maximum rate cut out at $48,837. * Lower the paid parental leave scheme salary cap to $57,460 – average week earnings – and use the savings for new child care payment. * States to be responsible for allocating all schools policy and funding. * Uni students to pay more for their degrees and lower local repayment threshold to the minimum wage. * New benchmark to lower growth in the minimum wage to 44 per cent of average weekly earnings. * Force young job-seekers to relocate or lose welfare benefit. * Reduce the number of government bodies. * Privatise Australia Post, NBN Co, Defence Housing, Snowy Hydro amongst other government-owned enterprises. * Abolish the Australia Network.”

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